
Contents
1. Two Ways to
Live
The Self Is a
Prison. True or False? The Ego Rejects Facts. Time Is an Illusion. The Reason
Lies Deep Within. The Me Is a Mine. Direct and Indirect Connection. Exposure to
the Miracle of Life. The Nine Cores of the Teachings. The Krishnamurti
Challenge. The Message of Freedom. See for Yourself! Words Are Not Enough.
Focus on the Whole. Don't Miss It! The Only Step. Don't Waste Your Life. Seven
Parts, One Whole. Now or Never.
Part 1: TRUTH IS A PATHLESS LAND
2. The Thrill
of Freedom
A Mutation in the
Mind. The Thinker Is Thought. Consciousness Is a Storehouse. World Is
Indivisible. Thinking Prevents Direct Perception. Goodbye to All Cages! The
Dead Don't Listen.
3. Starting
from the Core
Self-made
Problems. Dreaming Is Not Seeing. Life Is about Waking up. A Prayer Is an Escape.
Beliefs Prevent Thinking. Poison Is Always Poison. Living with a Snake. Can
Unity Be Described? Change Starts with Transformation. Rules Don't Work! Sick
of Selfishness. Theosophical Nonsense? Giving Up Ideals. Paradise on Earth.
Mind the Gaps. Misery Inherited. Escaping Evil. "Agent K" in the Andes. Break
the Limits! What Do You Want and Why? Sweet Surrender. No Tomorrow. Love that
Burns. Love needs no Reason. Genuine Joy Comes Uninvited.
4. War and Peace Within
War Is a Symptom.
Hating Does Not Stop Hate. A Revealing Mirror. Two Ways to Get Caught. Desire
Is the Core of the Self. The Touch of the Master. The Vicious Cycle. The Means
Create the Problems.
5. Creative
Insight
Mind Wandering Is
a Habit. Clear Your Mind! Find the Treasure of Life. Insight Breaks the Power
of Ego. How Wars End? Slow Down Your Life. Illusion Creates the Master. We are
Copies. Never Compare!
6. Truth and
Freedom
Who Punishes Who?
Freedom Brings Alertness. The Self Is a Trick. Conflicts Cannot Ennoble Us. No
Escape. From Becoming to Being. Nobody Owns the World. You Are Many Selves.
Living Bliss. Let Thoughts Unfold.
7. The Human
Problem
Focus on the
Essential. Hear Your Noise. Who Is to Blame? Cannot Catch the Truth. A Shortcut
to Happiness. Prayer Is Self-produced Serenity. Enjoy Listening! Freedom Does
Not Need Instructions. Cannon Fodder? Experience Without the Experiencer.
8. The Real
Revolution
Happiness and
Inner Peace. Go to the Source. We Are the Problem! Clinging to the Self. Stop
Collecting. The Truth Cannot Be Harnessed. Open Heart Fills with Joy. Love,
Explore, and Act. Ideals Create Conflicts. Will Is Selfish.
Part 2: THE OBSERVER IS THE OBSERVED
9. Education
and the Significance of Life
Search for the
Whole. Becoming a Monster. Fear Prevents Intelligence. Finding Your Vocation.
Struggle for Eternal Happiness. Without Labels We Are Alike. Peace by Patchwork
Reforms? Search for Truth. Sex as an Escape. Filling an Empty Heart. Formulas
Do Not Liberate. Clarity in Confusion. Where Did Respect Go? If you Must Choose,
Choose Truth. You Cannot Know the Other. Blinded by the Paths.
10. The First
and Last Freedom
Value Beyond
Words. Double Life in the Shadow of Symbols. Hope Is in People. Wisdom Flows
from Freedom. The Sad Search for Happiness. What We Are, the World Is. A Simple
Solution. The Momentum. Life through a Screen. Why Do We Want More than We
Need? The Conflicting Goals. A Dog Chasing Its Tail. When Fear Ends, Joy Flows.
Humility is Simplicity. The Awakened Mind. The Truth Silences the Self. The
Bliss of Silence. Hard to Give Up. Silence Is Not an Experience. See More at
the Top. Hate Is Hate Everywhere. You cannot Do Much Alone. No One Knows the
Unknown. Can Emotions Be Isolated? A Flower Needs No Reason to Glow. The Hook
for Happiness. Whose Brains Are You Using?
11.
Commentaries on Living
Three Egoists.
Ecstasy in the Midst of Stupor. My Comfortable Cage. A Flash in Darkness. Work
or Hurt? Observe to Understand. A Dead Memory Cannot Be Revived. Everything for
Everyone. Faith Blocks the Light. Unexpected Break. The Truth Does Not Fall
from the Sky.
12. The Source
of Happiness
Creative
Happiness. Escaping Keeps Fear Alive. Getting Rid of Hate. The Lost Vitality.
Love Is the Answer. Wasted Years? Craving for Power Is Violence. A Living Dead.
No Worries about Tomorrow. Conformity Causes Dullness. Every Moment Is New. Family
First or Worst? In the Jungle of Beliefs. Used to Being Wrong. Indirect
Self-pity. The Mystery Is Not to Be Sought. In a State of Bliss. Perhaps Love.
What's Wrong with the Masters? Why Won't Instructions Help? Up in the Air. The
Curse of Talent. The Mystery of Mysteries. Space without Words. Knowledge
Clouds Clarity. Bigger than Myself.
13. Finding a
Purpose
Truth and
Knowledge Do Not Meet. The Search Creates the Seeker. On the Other Shore. There
Is No Hell! Ego Is Decay. Don't Explain, Understand. Change by Giving up.
Helping or Healing? Endless Learning. Noise Annoys if You Resist It. The Toys
of the Mind. Justification for Killing. No Motive for Doing the Right Thing. Lust
and Glory. Politics Cannot Be Spiritualized. We Need a New Mind.
Part 3: MUTATION TRANSFORMS THE MIND
14.
Krishnamurti's Notebook
It Was Present
and Filled the Room. Nothing Sacred in the Brain. The Beginning and the End of
Everything. The Cup Overflowing. Bliss Comes When It Will. Reality Is Not a
Reward. Power Is the Torch of Evil. Thought Builds Its Own Prison. A Mutation Is
Fundamental. With or Without Thought. The Empty Brain Is Not a Vacuum. A
Journey Far Beyond. Be Nothing, not a Thing. Money Can't Buy. Love Has No
Motive. A River Flowing Free. A Fire that Leaves No Ashes. Discipline Dries the
Mind. Life Is Death. Habits Prevent a Timeless Glimpse. Everything and Nothing.
15. Life Ahead
Understanding
Truth. Comparing Breeds Frustration. The Limits of Thinking. Enquiring Mind. Traditional
Stupidity. Deep as the Ocean.
16. This
Matter of Culture
What Are We Being
Raised For? Ideals Rob Us of Our Freedom. Sensitive to Ugliness. Don't Get
Stuck in the Swamp. A Heart Full of Smiles. A Small Room and the Big Mystery. Power
Is Dependent. Emotions Do not Obey. Happiness Is a By-product. A Symbol Is Just
a Shadow. The Mind Is a Bubbling Spring. There Is No Equality. Teaching Is
Love. Routine Puts the Mind to Sleep. Forget Fame! Working Willingly. No Need
for an Inspirer. Why Stars Shine and Birds Die? Hear the River Sing. Afraid of
Living. Two Ways to Listen. A Glimpse. Coercion to Escape? Cruel People.
Stand-by Spectators. Where Did Your Joy Go? Don't Beat Yourself Up.
17. Freedom
from the Known
Simply the Best.
Own or Borrowed? Doubt it! One and the Same. Pleasure Leads to Pain. Ambition
Is Fear. Brutality is Learned. Free Your Mind from Images. The Burden of
Thousand Yesterdays. Time is an Idea. Love Does Not Obey. The Word Is a Screen.
The Observer Is an Image. Thought Breeds Duality. Facing the Truth, the Brain Will
Surrender. Shrinking Experiences. Why Do We Miss the Most Important?
18. The Only
Revolution
Be a Total
Outsider. Finding God with a Gun in Your Hand. In the Midst of Beauty. Silence
Fills the Valley. Many Kinds of Silences. The Noise of Ego. Guru Misleads. On
the Path of Buddha. Hard Work. Happiness in the Shadow of Sorrow. Worshipping
Gods in the Dark. Playing with Toys of the Mind. Sacred – Everything or
Nothing. The Eagle Leaves No Trace in the Air. An Empty Mind Cannot Be
Purchased. Artificial Light. Innocency Is Space. The Map of Sorrow. Prayer Is
Born of Self-pity. Our Common Burden. The Known Is Confusion. Can Silence Be
Heard? Don't Take Sides! Connection Comes from Understanding. Start from the
Other Shore. In the Light, All Limits Disappear. At the Lunch Table. Do You See
the Daffodils? Something Different. Double Life. A Mind Overloaded with Belief.
Illusion and Honesty. Golden Pills.
19. The
Urgency of Change
A Difficult
Lesson. God Is a Concept. From a Prison to Another. Will Is Not Awareness. A
Part Is Never the Whole. Too Much Sorrow. Dreams Are Clues. Avoiding Happiness.
A New and Brave Human.
20. The
Impossible Question
A Record Playing
in Your Brain. Being Free to Love. Analysis Is Paralysis. One by One or All at
Once? A Self-inflicted Danger. Cut the Crab. Where Does the Holy Hide? The 'I' Is
Quick. When the Monkey Takes Over.
21. The
Awakening of Intelligence
The Role of a
Teacher. The Centre Is the Default. The Only Problem. Evil Is Relative. No Need
for a Guru. Everyone Uses His Own Gun. Read Between the Lines. Why Does Thought
Take Over? A Common Source.
22. A Wholly
Different Way of Living
An Individual Is Not
an In-dividual. Above All, a Human Being. Old Can Appear New. Seeing Is the
Solution. Responsibility Means Care. Order Creates Flourishing. How is Fear
Born? Joy Is Spontaneous. The Core of Beauty. The Miracle of Learning.
Superstitious Nonsense. Love Without Limits. Another Way to Live. Get Rid of
Attachments. Faith Is Not a Fact. When Life Flourishes.
23. Meeting
Scientists
Search for the
Root. Dangerous Knowledge. Physics Meets Mystics. Is Narcissism Part of Being
Human? Who Needs Help? Defining Being Human. Is Compassion Necessary in
Science? Our Holographic Brain. Routes to Transformation. Opening the Psychic
Closet. Can the Brain Be Still? From Dichotomy to Systemic View. Bringing
Compassion into Science. Health Is Wholeness. Quantum and Mental Leaps. Beyond
the Measures. How to Hear Silence? We Like Conflict! Selfish People Are
Energetic. The Self as a Fiction. Love Is Liberty. Got the Point?
24. Truth and Actuality
Illusions Are
Real. Thoughts Have a Right Place. Actuality Is Not an Opinion. Let the Facts
Act. Reject the False. The Drum Vibrates to Emptiness. An Empty House. Seeing Is
Doing. Crooked Like a Corkscrew. Step Out of Your Stable. Meeting the Mystery. Stream
Gone Wrong. Healing the Damaged Brain. The Process Revisited. Can Wisdom Be
Learnt? Eliminating Desire.
25. The Wholeness of Life
How Deep Do You Want to Go? Life Is More than Me. Lost
in Concepts. Still Crazy after All These Years. To Live, You Must Leave. Two
Rails Never Meet. Occupied by Acute Matters. Sensing the Sacred. The Perfume of
Truth. Demand Excellence! When You Are Not.
26. The Ending of Time
Ego Took the
Wrong Turn. Time Is the Enemy. At the Source. In Nothing There Is Everything.
Towards the Ground. Insight Transforms Thought. Old Maps Mislead Us. Out of the
Shock: A New Mind. Mutation in the Brain Cells. Dispelling Darkness. Immensity
Calling. The Old Brain Cannot. Cosmos Is in Meditation. From a Pond to the
Ocean. A Thorn in Thought. Knocked by Knowledge. Universe as the Body of the
Mind. Refuse to Have Problems. The Missing Element. The Practical and the Particular.
27. The Beauty of Life
When the Self Is
Speechless. Who Is Healthy? The Truth Is Not in the Temple. The Word Is Not the
Thing. Non-Verbal Consultation. The Role of Culture Is to Change Man. Where Is
Peace Built? Rats Destroy Each Other. A Light for All. Unending Passion Brings
Creation. Space, Knowledge and Self-awareness. The Messed-Up Human. The Mystery
of the Silent Night. Thought Is Helpless. The Greatest Miracle in the World. To
Be or Not to Be!
28. Meeting Life
It Is Everywhere.
Do Nothing! The Healthy Ones Are Strong. In the Grip of Culture. Drops Like a
Bad Penny. Happiness Is Selfish. The Bourgeois Emptiness. Fear Hinders Wisdom. Don't Waste
Your Life. This Is Transformation. The Message Is You. Where Does Life Begin?
The True Religion.
29. Thinking Together
Collective
Consciousness. Action that Is Always Right. The Perfect Order. Can the Brain
Change Itself? Differences are Superficial. Programmed to Repeat. The Brain in
Action. What Is Enough of Self? From an Animal to a Human. Clearing the
Confusion. Healthy Mind Is Whole. The 'Me' First, Second, and Third? Two Options. At the
Crossroads. Insight Works, or It Does not. Something Wonderful. The Answer Is
Freedom.
30. The Future of Humanity
Life Is a Live
Broadcast. End the Tyranny of Thought! His Last Journal. Healed in Nature. The
Earth Is Smiling. A Better 'Me' Is a Lie. Man Is to Be Dreaded. Language
Doesn't Condition Us. Die With Dignity.
31. The New Agenda
Attention to the
Actual. The Mutation Is a Must! Three Thresholds. Stuck In an Illusion. Our
House Is on Fire. Brains Are Shrinking. The Right Foundation. Life Is on the
Move. There Is No Switch. The Foam on the Surface. Order and Harmony. Like a
Magnet. Break the Cycle of Time. Nobody Owns the Sky. Time to Stop. Similar in
Different ways. The Most Important Arts.
32. The Future is Now
Thought Behind Us
All. Beauty Beyond the Self. The Energy of Love. Limitless and Timeless. "It
Ends".
33. The Best Way to Live
Living in 'What Is'. The
Self Is Our Own Creation. A New Dimension.
Appendix
The Life of Krishnamurti
Krishnamurti's
Posthumous Books
Books about Krishnamurti
Sources
Index
